By KELIN DILLON On Monday, Aug. 29, the families of 10 Mexican miners – who have been trapped inside a flooded mine in Sabinas, Coahuila, without outside contact since Aug. 3 – accepted the Mexican government’s proposal to recover their relatives’ bodies though an up to 11-month-long excavation process and essentially accepting the miners’ lives as already lost. The National
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Ever since 10 coal miners in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila were trapped 60 meters underground in a flooded mine on Aug. 3, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has been looking for a scapegoat to blame the tragedy on. From originally trying to pass the responsibility on to the miners themselves for not following
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XINHUA Reflooding has “complicated efforts” to recover 10 miners who have been trapped for nearly three weeks in a Coahuila coal mine in northern Mexico, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) admitted Monday, Aug. 22. Water levels inside the El Pinabete mine, in the town of Sabinas in Coahuil, rose again over the weekend as rescue efforts continued to no
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Four days after at least 10 men were trapped in the collapsed El Pinabete coal mine in Mexico’s northern state of Coahuila, with prospects of their survival dimming rapidly as rescue workers have been unable to drain a 40-meter flood of water that has filled the mine, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Sunday, Aug. 7,
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The remains of the seventh and final excavation worker missing after a collapse of a coal mine in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila one week earlier were located late Thursday night, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced Friday, June 11, during his early morning press conference. According to the Coahuila Labor Secretariat,
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By KELIN DILLON As of 6 p.m. Sunday, June 6, three bodies had been recovered from the Mexican mine in Múzquiz, Coahuila, which collapsed on Friday, June 4. At least seven miners were trapped inside the caved-in mine after they accidentally penetrated the wall of an adjoining mine, reportedly flooding it, leaving the hopes for any of the workers making
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO At least seven miners were trapped underground on Friday, June 4, when the walls of a small-scale coal mine collapsed in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila, just south of Texas. According to the Coahuila Labor Secretariat, the mine, located just outside the town of Muzquiz, collapsed when the walls of an adjoining inactive mine
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